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Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
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Continuing
Make
Wear
Good
Drink
Things
Humor
Progress
Modern

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What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
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Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
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The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.
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All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
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The competition is very stiff. Brian Williams has proved himself as a credible news anchor (at NBC), and Bob Schieffer has done the same (at CBS). But as Peter and Tom (Brokaw) and Dan have always said about the competition, it makes us all better.
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It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
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In the midst of life we are in debt.
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How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
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Everything pales in comparison to deer.
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Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.
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The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy
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Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.
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Where God is, all agree.
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There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.
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Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
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I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.
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